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By: John Hulsman

Dr. John C. Hulsman is Senior Columnist at City AM, and Founder and Managing Partner of John C. Hulsman Enterprises, a global political risk consulting firm. More of John’s work is available on his substack

  • The End of the Affair: The EU and UK have very different foreign policy destinies

    December 21, 2020

    As the year draws to an end, City A.M. is looking back at the columns that illuminated the world around us. In The End of the Affair (1951), Graham Greene — to my mind the most underrated novelist of the twentieth century — perfectly encapsulates the chaotic feelings lying behind romantic breakup and emotional calamity.   [...]

  • India will be the big winner of this new world order

    December 19, 2020

    Delhi benefits from the structural fact that though we presently live in an era epitomised by superpower bipolarity, it is a very different type of two-power standoff than was the Cold War. From 1945–1991, America and the Soviet Union so dominated the international scene that they easily lined up much of the rest of the [...]

  • Beyond Brexit, the EU is circling the drain

    December 14, 2020

    The astronomer and prolific author Carl Sagan put it perfectly about the merits of analytical logic — what I often refer to as my superpower — when he said: “For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is, rather than to persist in delusions, however satisfying and reassuring.”  I am [...]

  • An assassination in Tehran — that’s all about Joe Biden

    December 7, 2020

    To outside weary eyes, the unending conflicts that go on in the Middle East amount to everyday background noise, a part of the paper to ignore amid the deluge of vaccine stories.  But to disregard a recent assassination in Tehran would be a mistake.  In a plot worthy of the best spy thriller, Dr Mohsen [...]

  • Antony Blinken and the tragedy of America’s foreign policy establishment

    November 30, 2020

    I was recently speaking to an DC-insider friend of mine about the appointment of Antony Blinken as America’s next secretary of state.  My old colleague — a veteran of my seminal struggles with the neo-conservatives around the time of the Iraq War, a passionate Republican Never-Trumper and card-carrying member of the Washington establishment — summed [...]

  • Love him or hate him, Trump is right to wind down America’s endless wars

    November 23, 2020

    In my last book, To Dare More Boldly: The Audacious Story of Political Risk, each chapter represents a key precept, based on a specific historical story, as to how to do political risk analysis right.  One of my favourite of these 10 commandments is what I term “the Losing Gambler’s Syndrome”. This directly relates to [...]

  • The biggest loser in the US election: The idea of the loyal opposition

    November 16, 2020

    Edward R. Murrow, the greatest of all American newsmen, got it exactly right about the essence of the miracle of American political stability: “We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.”  Before our very eyes, the aftermath of the election of 2020 [...]

  • In tearing up America’s democratic norms, Donald Trump leaves behind a poisonous legacy

    November 15, 2020

    As I write this, with the states of Nevada, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, and North Carolina circling around him, the first term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States is about to come to a shattering end.  Notice that I said first term.  For there is little doubt that the Republican Party remains [...]

  • The curse of the Mail-In Vote: How this contested US election became a horror show

    November 4, 2020

    For a number of months now, good political risk man that I am, I have worried aloud in these pages with increasing dread about the 2020 US presidential election.  There are times when you hate being right about making correct political risk calls. The Iraq War debacle was surely such an occasion for me.  Sadly, [...]

  • Biden and his interventionists should beware: America has changed due to the Iraq effect

    November 2, 2020

    It is not too much to say that my early and fervent opposition to the Iraq War was the seminal professional and ethical moment of my life.  I will never forget it. As it turns out, neither will the American people.  Despite what it cost me, I was against the war for myriad reasons. It [...]

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